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User Name Emilia
Member Since 2002-02-13
Total number of Feedback Posts: 19
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Boxee 0.9.14.6992 (Mac OS X)
At least the best of all these alpha-release media software 
I think its now more than 4 years in my quest for a decent media center software on my Mac Mini. I tried a lot and so far I always turned back to Frontrow. For Boxee however I will leave it at least installed on the Mac though it cannot replace Frontrow to full extend: - as many of these media center solutions it is labeled "alpha" and it will probably stay that for ever... - it comes with yet-another micro-social-network share idea which forces you to "subscribe". However its easy and you can disable most of it. At first test it was surprisingly stable and had nice feature like labeling all my local TV-series episode automatically. But after some months use crashes are becoming more frequent. Boxee like other programs promise you easy access to online media, video sites, RSS feeds etc. Its doing fine with popular feeds like Revision3 but fails most of the for user selected feeds. This is not really a surprise as most RSS subscription to video feeds do *not* work with external software but are designed to be displayed in Web-Browsers. Also the promising build-in Torrent client did not work for me at all. Providing Torrent RSS feeds picked the right files but never managed to download anything. So for the moment I keep it on the Mac and hope for an update (last version already 5 months old). [alert admin]
Wednesday, October 28 2009 @ 05:59 AM PDT
MacFamilyTree 5.5.8 (Mac OS X)
Diagrams getting better but still not as it should be
I am using V4 for some time now but I never felt attracted to switch to V5. There was too much emphasis on 3D charts which I find rather useless for a classical 2D data sets (thats what family trees are: 2D!) I think it was V5.4 where they finally made 2D Charts editable but with the current V5.5 is still not perfect. Its a major challenge when the number of persons increase to distribute all graphical elements over one or several pages and still make everything readable and "pretty". I would hope for some more advanced graphics features: - in addition to manual layout some auto-aligment/adjustements functions - there are no graphical templates! When you edit a diagramm it is stored as graphical objects with all reference to the actual data base lost. Thus when you change one detail of information for a certain person you have to start your diagram layout from scratch again! - more control over the layout of text within a diagram box. Again not as a one shoot manual edit but rather defining templates. [alert admin]
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Saturday, June 27 2009 @ 04:15 AM PDT
VLC Media Player 0.9.9a (Mac OS X)
.. but it looks like this is one of the many amateur projects which will never come out of beta-status. Not just because of the amusing version numbering (whats next V0.9.9.9.9b ?) but because since about V0.8.6 it has become more and more unstable, crashes with several non-QT-compatible codecs and I still have a problem with some files to set the audio volume, either too low or too loud... I use it occasionally for some exotic video files but QuickTime+Perian is good for 98% of multimedia content for me. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, April 29 2009 @ 05:42 AM PDT
Mail Act-On 2.0.5 (Mac OS X)
Looks the author wanted to start from scratch rather than improving a small but very effective helper app. Now its three trigger keys instead of one (F1-F3) you cannot modify them and there are secondary keys with and without CTRL key pressed and.... . This is simply too much and too much different from V1. Although I like the new Outbox Rules I will stick with the more simple and elegant V1. And yes, 25$ is far to much for a program add-on! [alert admin]
Wednesday, April 29 2009 @ 05:01 AM PDT
iStock 1.5.3 (Mac OS X)
Crashes at startup in OSX 10.5.5
.. and filling the console window with tons of messages indicating to me something is terribly wrong here... A pity, I am still looking for decent stock program on the Mac... [alert admin]
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Tuesday, November 04 2008 @ 04:34 AM PST
CatDV Pro X 7.0b17 (Mac OS X)
Still one of the best catalogue programs, print options need improvements
Everything has nicely evolved although some features have reached a "saturated" level (how many filters,groups and bins to you need to get your stuff sorted..?). The only feature which still needs some work are the printing options which are rather poor since V2 with rather limited customization possibilities. [alert admin]
Monday, July 07 2008 @ 11:41 AM PDT
Bento 1.0.0.4 (Mac OS X)
Finally a FM-lite with full Mac Integration
as a passionate FM user I was always annoyed by the poor integration of FileMaker with OSX. So I want a project database but I need to duplicate the Mac Addressbook in FM and work with that, same for dates, events etc. Now here is the "logical" step but it stop somewhat too early. So you got all your data nicely combined in a table, a form.. but then what are *doing* with it??? -> no buttons "send e-mail" "print phone numer in large" ... next to an address entry" -> no button "open" next to a file reference -> no context menu next to event like "show this in iCal" So if this one way road approach is a little bit modified I would probably buy the product as FM is often an overkill. [alert admin]
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Friday, February 08 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Tasty 1.5b (Mac OS X)
Dont use this piece of software! Not only that bookmarks lists are rather simple, the programmer even "forgot" the close or cancel button on the Ma.gnolia window so you need to force quit the application to exit here!! [alert admin]
Tuesday, September 04 2007 @ 01:30 AM PDT
XHub Media Center 2.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Yet another Frontrow clone...?
When I bought my MacMini as my first attempt to get a "Media Center" in my living room I was quite disappointed about Frontrow: (too) simple navigation, no internet video streams other than movie trailers etc... Looking at various alternatives like Media Central and now Xhub I got to say: Apple is not that bad in a relative sense. Most of the competitors are not beyond alpha-beta releases. Xhub is surprisingly stable for its age but the delta to Frontrow is (right now) rather minor. RSS Feeds and a build in Webbrowser are a nice and innovative idea but thats about it - the usual simple setup to watch stored movies from HD or DVD or to listen to iTunes songs. No clever idea how to effectively navigate thru a >1000 songs iTunes collection (There must be more clever ideas than just selecting playlists!) I will watch the evolution of this program but for now there is no real reason to abandon Frontrow. [alert admin]
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Monday, August 06 2007 @ 08:45 AM PDT
VLC media player 0.8.6c (Mac OS X)
I am surprised that this high rated piece of software appears to get more and more unstable with each new release. The latest 0.8.6c (I am always amused about the madness of version numbering for amateur software;-) crashed with formats like .m2t or .wmv. If I only can play QT compatible formats I might rather stay with the Apple quicktime player :-( [alert admin]
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Wednesday, August 01 2007 @ 08:03 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Emilia [ Search for All ]
You maybe right with your special setup of 3 machines and NASD but for the "normal" user Synchronize Pro is still much easier to handle and superfast! Dont forget this software does syncs *and* backup while QRecall uses its own proprietary archive format.
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Tuesday, July 08 2008 @ 04:50 AM PDT
simply does not work, even with your hint! moved to Trash..
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Thursday, August 23 2007 @ 06:13 AM PDT
Yet another Frontrow clone...?
Yes, I noticed that. However my intention is to use a Media Center with a remote control, not a keyboard. Its a tricky task to get navigation swift and easy with only six buttons, I know! I am sorry for the multiple postings. This was due to network problems. I noticed the Admins but they do not react...?
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Sunday, August 12 2007 @ 07:02 AM PDT
5.6 Sneaky Peek (Alpha) versions open for testing
Unfortunately it crashes much too often, even when trying to download from their own web-site. Its truely alpha releases!
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Friday, July 13 2007 @ 01:18 AM PDT
I think you got it anyway - it *combines* features and as with many other applications this is often the better way for effective working rather than collecting 599 different Utilities in my Application folder. This "Mosaic" stuff is an unnecessary gimmick, developers should focus on a good catalogue and database programm.
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Tuesday, September 19 2006 @ 05:29 AM PDT
Well Buddy, contrary to you I have a little life outside my Mac and I am not checking updates every day. Indead its already two weeks ago I do the last check on Flip4Mac and at that time there was just an announcement.
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Thursday, July 27 2006 @ 01:00 AM PDT
